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value (Hylotichla), as suggested by Prof. Baird. (Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, page 4.) 



II. The MIMIXJK, or Mocking Thrushes, have the 

 tarsus scutellate (sometimes booted in Galeoscoptes), the 

 first primary scarcely spurious; the rictal bristles better 

 developed, and the tail relatively longer, in our species 

 longer than the wings. These birds have a brilliant and 

 varied song, but all of them are plainly clad. All are 

 American. 



III. MYIADESTIN^E, the Fly-Catching Thrushes, have 

 been usually associated with the Ampelidce, but their 

 affinities are rather with the thrushes, as Prof. Baird has 

 shown. All are American, the single species within 

 our limits is a rare straggler from the West. 



* Tarsus booted; wings longer than tail. (TuRDiiUE.) 

 f Breast spotted ; length 8*, or less. . . HYLOCICHLA, 1. 

 ff Breast unspotted; (in ours) reddish or handed with black; 

 length 9^, or more. . . . . . TUKDUS, 2. 



** Tarsus scutellate in front (scutella rarely obsolete) ; wings (in 



ours) shorter than tail. ( MIMING.) 



| Bill about as long as head, sometimes much longer, straight 

 or curved, not notched. . . METHRIOPTERUS, 3. 

 tt Bill much shorter than head, notched at tip. 

 a. Tarsus distinctly scutellate; ours ashy, with black and 



white. . MTMUS, 4. 



aa. Tarsus feebly scutellate; plumage lead-colored; crissmn 



chestnut-red GALEOSCOPTES, 5. 



*** Tarsus booted ; wings about equal to tail; bill short, much 

 depressed, notched and hooked; color ashy. (MYFADESTIN/E.) 



MYFADESTES, 6. 



/. HYLOCICHLA, Baird. WOOD THRUSHES. 



< Titrdus, Linn. 



1. H. mustelina, (Gm.) Bd. WOOD THRUSH. Cinnamon 

 brown, brightest on the head, shading into olive on the 



